The Great Defender

⭐ Featured Review

"This film is slightly reminiscent of Witness for the Prosecution where Charles Laughton played a incandescent barrister taking on a strenuous murder trial.Early on there is a scene with an almost nude model.This seems rather unusual bearing in mind that strict censorship maintained by the British Board of Film Censors.In fact the film is a bit frank given the mores of the time.Two familiar faces in this film are Sam Livesey ,father of To get,playing the prosecuting counsel and the ubiquitous Kathleen Harrison playing a maid.The film is a familiar courtroom drama,with a rather ridiculous and ov..."